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Perhaps a democracy can save itself from militarism. Perhaps it can save others. That is what we are trying to prove. But Mr. Chandler is not helping us. SYDNEY FAIRBANKS. 1L.
I have been following with increasing interest and decreasing sympathy the communications of Mr. Fairbanks. In Thursday's edition I see that Mr. Fairbanks is supported by two others.
Mr. Fairbanks even goes so far as to declare that General Pershing is "biased by his profession"; yet General Pershing advocates a standing army of exactly half the size recommended by a civilian Secretary of War, and certain civilian members of Congress.
The third calls for more attention. The theory that peace is preserved by having each nation try to be stronger than every other or all others was abandoned as Utopian quite early in human history, and replaced by that of the Balance of Bower. This second system having failed egregiously...
Neither of his letters makes any definite statement, save that he is not surprised--an assertion with which I have no quarrel; he only implies by turns (a) that a lynching mob should not be punished by law, (b) that, apart from the question of whether they should be punished...